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Land Forms

Land Forms. A MOUNTAIN is the highest kind of land. A HILL is a high place that is smaller than a mountain. Valley. A Valley is low land between mountains or hills. A PLAIN is flat land that spreads out a long way. Bodies of Water.

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Land Forms

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  1. Land Forms

  2. A MOUNTAIN is the highest kind of land.

  3. A HILL is a high place that is smaller than a mountain.

  4. Valley • A Valley is low land between mountains or hills.

  5. A PLAIN is flat land that spreads out a long way.

  6. Bodies of Water

  7. A LAKE is a still body of water with land all around it.

  8. Lake: a still body of water with land all around it. Mountain: is the highest kind of Land. It has sides that slope up to a top.

  9. A STREAM is a small body of moving water. Waterfalls Kiss Your Brain!

  10. A RIVER is a large body of moving water. • Chattahoochee River, Columbus, Georgia

  11. Ocean • An OCEAN is a large body of salty water.

  12. A Valley is low land between mountains or hills. Lake Stream Awesome

  13. What do you see? Mountains Hills Plain

  14. Super Job! Mountains Valley Lake Louise

  15. Volcanoes

  16. In the image at left you see the red magma (hot, liquid rock) flowing upward and out of the mountain through a tube called a vent. • When magma comes to the surface it is called lava. • This type of volcano is called a composite because of the different layers made up of older eruptions.

  17. A magma flow between two layers is called a silland a flow through layers is called a dike. During a volcanic explosion hot gases, ashes and cinders can be thrown several thousand feet into the air. After the eruption the top of the mountain falls in on itself and forms a crater.

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